David LaChapelle’s recent exhibition featured a few different series, such as the biblical figures in water tanks wearing clothes from Goodwill, hard-drinking middle classes in motel-like settings and his take on a fashionable end of the world.

Mel Bochner’s text paintings helped keep the indolence, aggravation and filthy lucre away.

But then Enrique Martinez Celaya softened the harsh realities with escapes to a different landscape.

And we went to the beach with Robert Rauschenberg. And to the reptile cage and the rodeo.

David DiMichele ends the week on a fantasy note, with photos of installations that never were. SM

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